Using Fear To Become Successful

Want To Be Successful In Business And In Life? Here's The Trick You Need

In 2008, I decided to rethink my personal goals and how they aligned to my long term direction. Overnight, I retired from my two companies and realized that the reason I was not getting closer to fulfillment was that my focus was always on profits, and not so much on becoming better at everything I did. I immediately appointed CEOs to run my companies and focused all my efforts on creating a new company that was based on the fundamental idea that anyone who wants to succeed should have access to mentorship and support.

Thus Secret Entourage and Third Circle Theory were born. These two things would not only change the way people understand and interact with the idea of entrepreneurship, but also would force me to become the very best version of myself and push me to that place where passion, purpose, and talent come together. The fear of not leaving a legacy pushed me to find my very own purpose in life.

Now, I am facing the greatest challenge of my life, except this time it will not be solved by an injection of fear, but by the ability to be fearless.

In 2015, I was diagnosed with a tumor, and like anyone else in my situation, the thought of death crossed my mind. If the time came for me to leave, would I be satisfied with everyone and everything around me as it is today? Would I go in peace or be filled with regret?

It suddenly hit me that for once in my life, I wasn’t afraid of anything. I was actually excited that I had the privilege of knowing that when faced with adversity, the first thing that manifested itself in my mind wasn’t fear, but a feeling of fulfillment. The feeling of accomplishment and the feeling that everything life threw at me, I overcame and I leveraged to improve my life. It also hit me that it was through entrepreneurship that I experienced the best years of my life, I became the person I am to date, and more importantly, I created a legacy.

Let me clarify that I am not going anywhere yet, but I have found a new level of satisfaction through this experience, and one that reminds me daily of why I do what I do. It is very important to understand that we all face adversities in our lives, some we can control and some we cannot. We are faced with illnesses, monetary losses, failure as a person or in business — but we certainly can control how we react and focus on what we can control, rather than the circumstances around us.

You must take action on the good days, so that even the bad days prevent you from falling further behind. We may not know what adversity comes next, or what fear will consume our thoughts tomorrow, but we can predict what actions we will take. Life may one day cut our journey short, but what will matter isn’t going to be if we reached our destination, but if we made the journey count.